Version 1.6-pre3 of Lzip
Release Notes: Decompression support for the "Sync Flush marker" from lzlib has been added. Some "bashisms" have been removed from lzdiff and lzgrep. The dictionary size for options "-1" to "-4" has been changed.
Other releases
Release Notes: This release adds minor fixes and cleanups.
Release Notes: The compression time of the option "-0" has been reduced by 2%. A reorganization of the compression code has been made. A small change has been made in the "--help" output and the man page. Quote characters in messages have been changed as advised by GNU Coding Standards.
Release Notes: Lziprecover has been moved to its own package. The inability to change output file attributes has been downgraded from error to warning.
Release Notes: The option "-F, --recompress", which forces recompression of files whose name already has the ".lz" or ".tlz" suffix, has been added. For large values of "--match-length", the compression ratio has been slightly increased, and compression time has been reduced by up to 6%. The compression time of the option "-0" has been reduced by 2%. This release will print only one status line for each multi-member file when only one "-v" is specified. It will print up to 6 bytes of trailing garbage when "-vvvv" is specified. It does not show the message "and `--stdout' was not specified" for file types that can't be read (directories, etc).
Release Notes: For large values of "--match-length", (high compression levels), the compression ratio has been slightly increased, and compression time has been reduced by up to 6%.
